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RFC 4601 Revision. 81th IETF, Quebec Rishabh Parekh Jeffrey Zhang Vero Zheng. Motivation. Advance PIM specification to Draft Standard Address Errata Remove optional features that lack: Interoperable implementations Successful deployment experiences. Presented in Prague Meeting.
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RFC 4601 Revision 81th IETF, Quebec Rishabh Parekh Jeffrey Zhang Vero Zheng
Motivation • Advance PIM specification to Draft Standard • Address Errata • Remove optional features that lack: • Interoperable implementations • Successful deployment experiences
Presented in Prague Meeting • All errata had been reviewed • No real technical issues • Clarifications, editorial, keyword changes needed • Candidate feature-to-be-removed discussed and narrowed down to: • (*, *, RP) • Group-to-RP mapping • Milestones • Draft -00 end of April, addresses errata • Draft -0x before Quebec meeting, removes certain features
Current Status • Errata addressed in draft-parekh-pim-rfc4601bis-00 • Features removed in -01: • (*, *, RP) • Positive response and no objection on mailing list • PMBR related sections and appendices • (*, *, RP) is the foundation for PMBR • Group-to-RP mapping kept: • Was going to remove, and refer to RFC 6226 • That would cause a down-ref problem • Draft Standard referring to a Proposed Standard
No more PMBR functionality? • Somewhat drastic even to us • No more mentioning of border router at all • Is really justified after some pondering: • No major vendors implemented (*,*,RP), which is the foundation of PMBR as described in RFC 4601 and RFC 2715 • Only documented (RFC 4602) implementation is XORP (open source) • Deployment experience? • MSDP is typically used for inter-sparse-domain • Some proprietary mechanisms for downstream dense domains • Instead of relying on (*,*,RP) & PMBR
Other minor changes in -01 • Some keywords • Removed a redundant “CouldAssert” condition in (S,G) assert state machine • In case of “receiving inferior assert at NI” • “Cancels the (S,G) Assert Timer” -> “Expires …” • Summary of Assert Rules and Rationale, #6 • Do not attempt to aid SSM-unaware legacy routers • Section 4.8.1, SSM rules • Appendix B (Index) removed
Next Steps • WG adoption? • Survey, review & feedback, especially on features to be removed: • (*,*,RP) & PMBR ok? • Any others?